--- In cybalist@..., S.Tarasovas@... wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., "girts zadins" <girts1@...> wrote:
> > If I remember right Poltsk was a Latvian City
>
> If this is about my comment on Saxo's text, please make your
statement more precise:
>
> 1. What Poltsk do YOU mean? Is that the same Polack (< Old Russian
PolotIskU) in Byelorussia or something else?
>
[snip]
From the commentary in H.E.Davidson's translation
2.6 The Rutenians wre the inhabitants of Russia. The continued in use
up to recent times for Russians living on the south-west flanks of
the Carpathians, formerly part of Czekoslovakia and now included in
the USSR.
TP: What a silly woman. This is obviously wrong.
2.8 [...] Elton identified Rotala with Rötel in Estonia (modern
Haapsalu)
2.9 Saxo's Paltisca is Polotsk in Russia. A hill-fort existed there
at an early date, and the settlement became a trading centre in te
course of the Viking Age.
TP: isn't there a Paldiski in Estonia?
>
> Baltically yours,
> Sergei
Torsten